How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better | 
| Author: Charla Krupp
Publisher: Springboard Press
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Pages: 232
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ISBN: 0446581143
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.7042
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Publication Date: January 2, 2008
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Forget getting older gracefully--This is the beauty and style bible every woman has been waiting for!HOW NOT TO LOOK OLD is the first--ever cheat sheet of to-dos and fast fixes that pay-off big time--all from Charla and her friends, the best hair pros, makeup artists, designers, dermatologists, cosmetic dentists and personal shoppers in the biz. Packed with eye-opening details on hair color, brows, lipstick, wrinkle-erasers, jeans, shapewear, jewelry, heels, and more, the book speaks to every woman: from low maintenance types who don't want to spend a fortune or tons of time on her looks to high maintenance women who believe in looking fabulous at any price. There's also too-old vs. just-right before and after photos, celebrity examples of good and bad style, shopping lists of Charla's brilliant buys in fashion and beauty products, coveted addresses of "Where the top beauty pros go," fun sidebars--and more.
Known to national audiences from her ten years on NBC's Today show, style expert Charla Krupp dishes out her secrets in this "ultimate" to-do list for looking hip and fabulous -- no matter what your age.
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 G O O D......B U T............... May 15, 2008
This book, "How Not To Look Old", has BEAUTIFUL shiny paper, and an inviting template style, reminiscent of "InSTYLE" magazine, for which the author, CARLA KRUPP, once worked. Also included are many pictures of popular movie stars, music stars, and models of today. (All females, for some reason). It's interesting to look at these "star" pictures. Yes, they look "glamourous"...but not "elegant". I suppose it depends on the "look" one wants, I guess. I've always been one who favours elegance, and thus, this book, for all its many truly helpful hints, is not the "fashion bible" I expected it to be. Then again, I'm really not one who likes "fashion" -- which is effemeral and changeable. I'm more one for "style". Classic style. As explified by Jacqueline Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth II, and, more recently, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.
On page 111, for instance, the reader is advised to wear long, bell-bottomed black pants, a tan, open tweed jacket, white blouse, and many chains of long, obviously fake gold, and carry a semi-hobo style black bag, rather than wear the same jacket, with a matching skirt, string of pearls, with the traditional upper-class acoutrement of a small lapdog in hand. The caption, (referring to the matching jacket and skirt), reads:
'TOO OLD - matchy matchy'. However, it is interesting to note -- in this comparison picture, as in others throughout the book, that the "Just Right" lady seems to have have lightened her hair, had her teeth whitened, has lost her tan, has a far more natural-looking smile, and is given a more flattering, three-quarter stance, than that of the other picture, where the same woman looks at you dead on. I tried picturing a switch inn clothes for each picture and stance. The result? The lady on the right looks elegant, the one of the left, very tired looking, as if she had partied far too much. "Matchy-matchy" is NOT necessarily a ageing way to dress. It is often an ELEGANT way to dress!
Mentioning, (on page 170) that "Nothing Ages You Like....Ugly Orthopedic Shoes" is truly a disservice to those who must wear them! (How about mentioning that a sunny smile can over-come this?)
At the end of every chapter, is a section called "Brilliant Buys", mentioning recommended producrs in the category spoken of in that chapter. One is left wondering whether the producers of these recommended products helped fund the production of this book!
This said, there ARE good hints in this book. One need just look for them. (The picture on page 60...of a white model and a black one, both with "I long for beauty, love, youth and success" looks on their faces, should be a national poster for the fact that ALL humans, basically, want the same things!) But the "advice", in any book is, to me, like a menu -- one can look at all that is put out in front of one, then pick and chose, according to one's own taste! And fashion is fleeting... Not too long ago, it was anathema to wear high heels with blue jeans. Now -- on page 133 -- the author states: "Please don't wear gym sneakers with jeans" (!)
My advice is to get this book out of the library, and glean what good advice it has. If it fits your style, than that's fine. But true elegance is what I search for. To me, one can look younger by losing weight, enjoying life, keeping a broad mind and an active one, being realistic, (yet very optimistic), having friends and family nearby, sleeping well, and smiling often. The best cure for wrinkles is simple, inexpensive MINK OIL. The best cure for ageing is realizing the truth, that age is just a number.
So, instead of buying this book, buy biographies of famous beauties who did, and are doing, good in the world. Angelina Jolie, Jacqueline Bovier Knennedy, Millicent Fenwick, Audrey Hepburn, Catherine the Great, HSH Princess Grace, etc. If you do great things, beauty isn't really all that important, (Golda Meir, Mother Theresa, Charles Steinmetz). If you are beautiful, but empty-headed, the world may at first beat a path to your door...but then it will beat a path AWAY from your door, (the tragic GINA, the first celebrity to die from AIDS). For the rest of us, beauty is important because it will help on the road to material and career success....which is what most people, (except perhaps for nuns, aesthetics, and hippies, old and young) down deep, really do want. There's nothing wrong with wanting this...if you don't knock others down for it, (or, as PROFESSOR JAMES SHENTON once observed, "My freedom to swing my arm ends where your nose begins".) So, get rich, get beautiful, help people. Bill Gates has his handsomeness inside, as well as outside. Ivanka Trump is quietly building an empire...but also building a life. So is Athina Onassis.....
Each of us can be sure of having only one life. Make that life uniquely and totally yours. This book can give great ideas...but you need not follow all of them.
 Seriously?! May 15, 2008
I browsed through this book and although there are some good tips, most of it is simply unrealistic (unless you have the paycheck of Madonna). For example, page 196 lists hair salons in Los Angeles. Chris McMillan Salon is shown as charging $800 for a haircut with Sally! Oh, but if you get one from Chris you can save a couple hundred and it only costs $600. Let me see, if you maintained a cut every six weeks or so, that would come to roughly $6,400 per year. Is this a joke?
 How Not to Look Old May 15, 2008
How Not to Look Old is a lot of fun to read and has many useful tips.
Great book May 15, 2008
Very good book. I love the way she breaks it down, Low, Med, High, maintenance and names products. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to look their best.
Stepford wives only May 15, 2008
This book believes there is only one beauty standard for women. The author does not take individuality into account in her beauty and fashion "rules". The author advises that all women should be wearing shimmery light pink lipstick and that is all. This rule makes no sense at all. First off, I think frosted pink lipstick is very dated on most women, secondly, plenty of women look great in reds, purples and plums, why limit ourselves to light pink only? Additionally, the author doesn't even mention other formulas like tinted lip balms, stains or glosses.
I got the impression that the book was written entirely by the marketing departments of certain make up companies. Nars and Bobbi Brown are two that come to mind, every chapter has a recommendation for these two brands, be it eye shadow, lipstick or foundation. Speaking of foundation, the author recommends a luminizing foundation on all women. Again, there is no mention of different skin types or textures. I can't count the number of times I have seen someone with what started out as a dewy complextion and quickly melted into "Elvis, the later years". Luminizing makeup can be tricky, on a lot of women it makes your skin look greasy. Added to this is the fact that the author as made bronzer and self tanner absolute no-nos for any women who aren't already tan skinned naturally. To go with the frosted pink lipstick, a pale pink blush is the only accepted color on a women. So basically, she wants every one to have a waxy, greasy, pale face. Lovely, where do I sign up?
The fact that the author can't keep track of her own rules only makes the book that much more ridiculous. In one side by side photo selection there is a picture of Sharon Stone with pale skin and matte red lipstick. This is used as the "dated, old lady looking" picture. The next photo is one of Sharon Stone in a light frosted pink lipstick and major mystic tan and bronzed skin. The caption reads that Sharon looks so much younger and fresher in the second photo. OK, but doesn't that go against the cardinal rule of no self tanner or bronzer?
In the fashion section there is a list of the must have clothing items for every woman. Black sweaters, white sweaters, black tee shirts, white tee shirts, black trousers, white trousers etc...apparently the only item you are allowed to wear with color is a trench coat. Very exciting.
I have read many books on how to look your best, there are so many that are better than this book. Among them, "What You Wear Can Change Your Life" by BBC's Trinny and Susannah, "The 5-Minute Face: The Quick & Easy Makeup Guide for Every Woman" by Carmindy and both "In Style: Secrets of Style: The Complete Guide to Dressing Your Best Every Day" and "InStyle Getting Gorgeous". These books take into account the individual and how to make the most of what you have, rather than how to make you into the cookie cutter form someone thinks you should be.
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